ALL the hats! 😣

Nice! My kids have a hard time reaching the analog sticks on Xbox style gamepads, I found that those rubber pad things you can get help... at least until they pull them off 30s later 😆

Should be, SteamOS has a "desktop mode" as is that'll return you to the normal Plasma desktop. Or just install another "normal" distro in place of it

Between Win11 & Valve's push people are finally starting to come around to Linux. And it's easier to get up and running than a fresh Win install too

Just take one look at the whole Oracle v. Google lawsuit saga and you can see why Torvalds & the other maintainers won't go near anything even remotely associated with Oracle. I don't blame them at all. But breaking OpenZFS & refusing to work with them was pretty childish IMO

Now that's a big topic 😆

Short version: a modern filesystem with a lot of nice features that works extremely well for large scale storage, but also has a lot of benefits for workstations too. BUT, it was originally made by Oracle, so kernel maintainers are wary of it

It happens, but 6+ months was getting excessive. Ultimately it came down to Linus Torvalds and the kernel maintainers being openly hostile toward ZFS & refusing to play nicely. But open source has been burned by litigious corporations like Oracle many times, so I do understand the attitude

Yeah, ZFS is great & I use it on my homelab still (TrueNAS was a mistake though 😖).

What got me on Arch was a change in the kernel that broke OpenZFS, and being Arch it meant that with one package unable to update the system got increasingly unstable over the months until I pulled the plug on it

Nothing wrong with that, having options & the freedom to choose for yourself is what's important 👍

Arch + ZFS burned me good a while back 😆

I still like to mess with Arch once in a while but it's too high maintenance for use on my main machines.

I use immutable on my wife & kids' machines, regular Fedora on my own, and experiment with everything else (RPi's, NUC's, frankenmachines etc)

I'm finding these days I opt for installing (graphical) apps as flatpaks (something I picked up on after working with atomic spins). Saves you from dependency hell & having a million libs scattered about the OS, and is slightly safer from a security stance. CLI tools I still install directly via dnf

Surprised you weren't on Fedora in the first place! For gaming Fedora based distro's are generally the best choice, with the rapid pace of updates you don't have to wait months/years to get kernel & driver improvements. Bazzite is also great, with Gnome & KDE DE's available

That's fair! NAS's are never user friendly though 😆

At least you have the freedom to choose for yourself without needing to submit to a corporate overlord for permission to play in their highly restrictive box, and only if you follow all their questionable rules

The beauty of it is anyone can try to do it if they want to experiment, you don't need to buy Windows Super Ultimate Server Edition + half a dozen other licenses, and only able to run it on select M$ approved hardware. Got a 15y old junk laptop or cheap RPi, go for it!

Sleep less, but when they hit the right age - get them playing too! Plus they'll get you into games you might never otherwise try, I have my son to thank for getting me into Snowrunner & the Truck Simulators 😆

Once Heat Retreat is done I'm planning to clean up my doc & create a public Anytype template from it others can use too

I use Anytype for my design doc & it's been great, especially as i'm starting to bring in collaborators. Personally I don't trust big tech firms, there's no shortage of cautionary tales of businesses getting locked out for BS reasons - even happened to me for a week

Yeah the reliance on Proton annoys me to no end, but there are devs who target Linux natively, and crazy bastards like me that build for Linux, in Linux (cross compiling to Win & Mac) 😅